Daniel Roth takes a deep look under the hood of the new ASP.NET 5 runtime and the flexible, layered architecture that allows it to run on the .NET Framework, .NET Core and even the cross-platform Mono framework.

Game Development:A Web Game in an HourMoving from Web development to game development is easier than it looks. Michael Oneppo shows how to build a simple Web game from scratch in under an hour, using only jQuery and a library for making the game touch-capable. Michael Oneppo

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Microsoft AzureEnhance Data Exploration with Azure SearchThe need for effective search is growing as rapidly as massive data stores. Azure Search is a fully managed, cloud-based service that includes type-ahead suggestions, full-text search with weighting, ranking, and your own search behaviors based on a schema defined by field-attribute combinations.Bruno Terkaly